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$1m does not make you rich, Australians say

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2016
... help middle class families. "Whether it be the Hawke/Keating super reforms of the 80s and 90s, or the 2006 Howard-era Future Fund, both sides of politics have made substantial contributions to help to 'save retirement'. Yet we know people contribute ...

Future Fund puts in another strong year

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
The Future Fund has grown has almost doubled its assets under management to $118.4 billion from the initial investment of $60.5 billion seeded by the government in 2006. In a portfolio update briefing, the sovereign wealth fund said it has been paring ...

Report highlights sea-change in asset owner operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... based on a follow the sun model," BNP Paribas Securities Services head of Australia and New Zealand David Braga said. Future Fund managing director David Neal said for those who outsource asset management, principal-agent issues persist. The Future Fund ...

Future Fund awarded sovereign investor of 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... returns in 2015, collecting sovereign investor of the year at the 2016 Central Banking Awards. Managing director of the Future Fund, David Neal, said fund had to make certain it was not brought in to financial crisis aftershocks. "While the global economy ...

Financial services among top taxpayers

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... $195 million in company tax, 23.8% of its total income. This was followed by Platinum Asset Management (22.3%), the Future Fund Investment Company No.2 (19.5), and ASX (19.4). Also of note were Magellan Financial Group (18.3%) and Schroder Australia ...

Venture capital is back in vogue

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... there's also renewed appetite for foreign sovereign wealth funds to invest in domestic private equity as well as our own Future Fund that increase its allocation to private equity by $1 billion in the past 12 months," he said. "So there is a lot of support ...

Pessimistic investment horizon for super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... (ASFA) conference in Brisbane recently. Contango Asset Management investment services director and Guardian of the Future Fund, Carol Austin, told the session that the next couple of years are going to be difficult but she forecasts a recovery back to ...

Future Fund's morphing objective

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
Ambiguity around the Future Fund and whether it's a fund for public servants' super or a genuine Australian sovereign wealth fund continues to challenge the fund's leadership. Speaking in Perth yesterday, Future Fund managing director David Neal believes ...

Future Fund appoints equities head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015

Future Fund issues return warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
The Future Fund has issued a warning to investors that the high returns of the past few years are unlikely to continue in the medium term. The latest update shows the Future Fund's investment strategy has almost doubled the value of original government ...